According to the complainant, these delays were entirely due to the authorities, who repeatedly postponed consideration of his appeal because they were embarrassed to have to convict a person - who, to make matters worse, was a political opponent - for illegally attempting to leave the country. He says that this conviction would in itself be harmful to the image of the regime and that this made it harder to hand down a stiff sentence.
Según él, la responsabilidad de esas demoras incumbe exclusivamente a las autoridades, que en muchas ocasiones aplazaron el examen de la apelación al sentirse incómodas por tener que condenar a una persona, que además es un adversario político, por intento de salida ilegal del territorio, ya que semejante fallo perjudica la imagen del régimen y no permite aplicar penas graves.